Yes, they're quite rare. They're the top flight limited production models made for the Japanese market. They also make some very exclusive JC models for a couple of stores in Japan. If you want one you can always get one, but you used to have to import it from Japan. JCs have recently also been made officially available in the US.

Popular places to get them are Ishibashi (on eBay) and Kurosawa. You can get new ones in the US now, e.g. from Ibanez Rules. This guy used to be a steady source for JCs (seems to have almost dried up lately though), and there are others on eBay.

Here's the current range, BTW. That includes a really snazzy one in the style/shape of the S model, similar to the one you linked to above.

Back when I was more into Satriani, Gambale, and Vai (as a listener), I admired their Ibanez guitars.

If I had the spare cash, I'd consider picking one up as an act of rebellion against the current fashion, which states that vintage guitars are cool and "shredder guitars" are not. You're especially hipster if you have a Jazzmaster.

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The bad news: There are just many choices for noiseless Strat-style pickups are there are Strat and Strat-like models. DiMarzio makes some which got some good reviews. Fender's SCN noiseless are reportedly good.

I must admit I am happier with pickups that sound good but are a bit noisy, all the 'noiseless' ones I tried just didn't quite have the single coil sound I was after.

These ones pick up quite a bit of noise if I am not earthed, if I earth myself then they are pretty noiseless.

Ah, that's good then.

I looked into noiseless single coils for my Parker Nitefly Strat-like, because the ones on the Parker are very noisy. I was referred to the Kinmans by some fellow Parker owners, particularly the Woodstock Set. The Nitefly is a bright sounding axe because of the stainless steel frets and composite neck - they found the Hendrixian warmth of the Woodstocks improved the sound._________________Current and recent work on Soundcloud

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